Apparatus for spreading lacquer over the interior walls of cans.



I. G. HODGSON.

APPARATUS FOR SPREADING LACQUER OVER THE INTERIOR WA'LLS 0F CANS.v

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5| 1913. Lyl u Patented May 29, 1.9i?.

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'L I I I J. G. HODGSON.

APPARATUS FOR SPREADlING LACQUER OVER THE INTERIOR WALLS 0F CANS.

APPLlcAnoN FILED MAY 5.1913.

Patented May 29, 1917.

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. sel and tiit the same to spread the coating e5 the cans during the passage the latter e *propeiling orme or flights 15.

.APPJAETUS FR STERENG LCQUER @VER THE EMTERIQR WALLS F SANS.

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sloping Igrad'sally until it becomes level with tile rail 20 at stout the center oli the track and from there on to the end of the track remsins horizontal While the rail 20 To all witom it may concern: i

lie it known that Jorim l-looosou, e. citizen of the limiter- States, residing in Maywood, in the county of @ook and Sta-te of lllinoisV/have invented a new and useful improvement in Apparatus for Spreading Lacquer @ver the nterior Walls of' Cans, of which the following is a speeiication.

This invention relates to improvements shown in Fig. l.v The cans are .iirst placed on the trsciz es shown at B in Fig. l and are propelled tiierealong by means ot the flights l5, and. to keep the cans in proper position in apparatus for spreading or distributing on the track5 suitable guards 2 and 22 are lacquer over the interior Weils of cans. provided. 'The said flights are as shown, or An object oft the invention is to provide of equivalent design. suitable to maintain an suitable apparatus for distributing or. engagernent 'with the cans While they are spreedings lacquer or other equivalent coating losing tilted and slid from side to side. t material over the interior Walls of sheet lne apparatus is more particularly def metal cans or other forms of container vesm sels 'which avoids the use of swans, brushes or spraying devices, and which is composed of 'few parte simply erranged.

Another object of the invention is to provide s. costing machine or apparatus which wiil simultaneously rotate the container vessigned for carrying out the process of coeting the interior Walls of cans as described l n u x -v -f No. 1,i9o,15o, granted. Aug. 29

in .Patent 191@ on lthe epplication of Franklin Run .tiret ydepositing',u a measured or predetermined quantity of lacquer or other coating materiel in the interior ot' the cans, after which the cans are. placed upon the track in a tilted position asshovvn at B. Fig. the cans being then rolled or rotated along' the track and simultaneously with the rotation, tilted from the position shown at B. to that shown at in Fig. 1 in which the open end of the is lowered to a. position 'below `the closed end. 4 From the preceding description it 'will 'ne eeen that the ynizwnine or sopa-ratos is so arranged that ltlie cans are rotated about their iongitudina-l exis during' the passage over tlie track and on account ot the gradnai changing indfination of the track, tile ves sels are gre-.dually tilted or rotated about another axis, substantially transverse to the longitudinal exis of rotation.

Although l have herein sliovvn and described what l new consider the preferred. einliodiinent oi my invention, it 'will understcod that various changes and 'rn-editiesn tions may loe inode in the parte end arrengementstliereot Without departing' trono the spirit of the invention, end all suoli oliangesend modifications ere contemplated as corn-e Within-tile scope of tine claims eppended hereto.

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L L machine 'forspreading a, coating of lacquer or the like over the interior walls of?? cans comprising9 in combination: e conveyor having upright flights tor advancing; suc-u niaterial over the interior Walls of the vessel. The invention furthermore consists in the parte and devices and in the novel combinations oi the parte and ldevices as .herein shown, described or claimed. .t

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure l isa elevation ci en apparatus embodying my improvements; end Fig. is en enlarged end elevation 'the structure shown in Fig. l, showing in dotted lines several positions assumed by' over the track.

n said drawings the track A is shown ns supported by suitable upright standards i@ and il, the latter having mounted thereon c brackets l2, to 'which are secured the ends of the channel shaped table i3 over which runs the endless sprocket or link chain or con'veyer le, the latterl being provided with esplureiity of suitably spaced The chain or eonveyer le is mounted on and is continuously moved by a pair of sgreelret Wheels lo, one et .the latter being driven from suitable source of power (not shown) as by ineens of the Jpulley 17.

The truck A is directly secured to eestings 3.85 the vlatter being in turn secured to the brackets l2. As showin the track fig at -tlie left hond end of Fig. liess one rail 19 ele g voted above 'the opposite rail 329 the rail l@ is gradually elevated above the rail 1.9 as

dolph and, myself, the process consisting of Mill ,plurality of flights cessiv'o cans and adopted io rotate the saine, the can being adfiptecl to slide cnclwiso and vertically on .flights as may be required; and. means foi-'liking the can simultaneously with 4the rotation' inhoioo A machine for spi'oacling o coating of lacquer or the like over 'Julio intoiioif Walls of .cans comprising, in combination: supporting track ai; one emi of which one sido is higher than Elio other and at the ollici ond of which the opposite sitio4 is higher than the .first naincd si'e; and a convcyoi having noriow contrai iiiglits, .ai'rangcol to oo free from engagement with 'the ond flanges of the cams2 for rolling cans along said track; substantially as specified.

3. A manchino i'ioi' spreiding a coming of lacquer 0i.' the like over` the'inuoi'ior walls' of cons comprising, in combination: ai trac-li having two rails, oooh iail having n inclined portion and o horizontal poi-tion the inclined portions being arranged alongside the horizontal portions; l conve-)foi1 having o` thereon ziolap'uocl fio ongagc und roll cans along said track, and and guards; foi' engaging the .and surfaces of inl-ic cams, :against which guards the cans slicle longitudinally as they are convoyed; Substantially as spcciei Il. A machin@ for Spreading a coating of lacquer oi' the like ovoi the interim walls of angcd cane; comprising in combination: a supporting tmc-l; of gradually changing iii-- clina'ions; si continuouslv movable ooiwoyoi haii/ing a, plurality 0i flights propelling and rolling @ons along track; 'and guoids alongside; and pomllel with the ilcpioosorl portions of soii umol: 55h@ and focos of ith@ depressed ends' of 'the oansg subsiantially as speoiool,

5. ln a can coating machine, an onoiloss chain conveyor having; upright nights thoreon @monding up to 'the noi'mal level of the ccncrs of the. cans adopted to engage thc sides of cans anal roll and propel them with. the conveyor, on which flights the bodies of the cans slide Veitically and from sido to sido during their tifivcl, :indinoans which cooperate with said conveyor whereby inno ends of the cans arc alei'naioly elevated. While the cans are. being so advanced and rolled.,

6. A machine for spiceading lacquer oi-ihc lik@ over the interior wallsof cans, coinprising, in combination: ai conveyor having flights for engaging tho rear vsides of solon ocssivc cans and for pi'opclling the same, on which flights :lio canguro adopted to slide ondwiso and vcrticallyns may be regained; and moons foi' tiltingibhc ends vo a con al tornntcly. Y

7., A. machine' for spreading lacquer Voi' the like-over the interior 'walls of cans, compris ing, in combination: :i convcyoi having iighs for engaging thc roar of .successivo cans *and for propelling the smile, on 'which rlighis the, cans are adopted to slilc cndwisc and vcrticailly muy no cquii'efl; and means foi killing the @nds oi can al teinotoly; machine compiioing means for blmlding the cons from moving ondwiso ziway from their positions in from, of tlicii propclling flights.

` JOHN llOD-Sll. "Witnesses:

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